Apparatus for incasing toothpicks and the like.



vNo. 883,803. PATENTED APR. '7, 1908.

A. HERZ.

APPARATUS FOR INOASING TOOTHBIGK$ AND THE LIKE. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE12. 1907.

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W/ TNE SSE 8 I INVENTOH A TTOHNE S No. 883,803. PATENTED APR. '7, 1908.

' A. HERZ.

APPARATUS FOR INGASING TOOTHPIGKS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE12. 1907.

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WITNESSES /NVEN7'0H Z 1. A M M- No. 888,808. PATENTED APR. 7, 1908.

A. HERZ.

APPARATUS FOR INOASING TOOTHPIOKS AND THE LIKE. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE12, 1907.

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8 @485 WITNESSES 'NVENTOI? No. 883,803. PATENTED APR. 7, 1908. A. HERZ.

APPARATUS FOR INGASING TOOTHPIGKS AND THE LIKE.

' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12. 1907.

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WITNESSES INVENTOH A v 2 Z i Am ALEXANDER- HERZ, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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= Specification of IhettersPatent. Application filed June-1 2, 1907.Serial No. 318,577.

Patented April 7, 1908 To all whom it may-concern: Be it known that I,ALEXANDERHERZ, a citizen of the United States, and .a resident of theborou h ofManhattan, of the city of New York, in: t e county andState ofNew York,

- have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus forIncas ing Tooth picks and the Like, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to. the accomlpariying drawings,forming a part hereof. 'T e object of this invention is to provide anapparatus by means of which toothpicks and other articles of a regularor irregular shape may be conveniently inoased in a paper wrapper, whichap' aratus shall be entirely --automat1c and sha not requirethe use ofpaste to seal the wrappers. I

The various features-"of invention are fully described hereinafter andwith reference to the accompanyingdrawings in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of asuffioient portion of an apparatus embodying.the invention to enab ethe latter. to be understood. Fig. 2 is a viewinend elevation as seen from the left in'Fig. 1. 'Figs.'3 .and 4' are bothviews in vertical section taken on the planes indicated by the lines 33and=4-'' -4 respectively in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view similar to that ofFig. 2, except that it is partly broken away' and some of the parts areme, slightly" different position. Fig. '6 is a detail plan. view onalarger scale, illustrating a tube to be filled in its relation tovthefeeding and fill: in devices.- Fig. 7 is a detail view in verticasection on the same scale-,the'planeof the section being indicatedbyfthe line 7'7 in 6. Fig. 8 is a view ofthe apparatus in si eelevation. Figs.' 9 and 10 are views in elevation on an enlarged scale,showing two sidesof what is'referredto as the stick upon whichthetubesarelformed from a flat strip of paper; Figs..11 and 12 are similarviews in detail, showing a slightly different form for theend of saidstick.

The apparatus illustrated in the drawings was desl ed es ecially forhandling quill tooth pic and or simplicity indesoribing and claiming theinvention, the word picks will be used to refer to the articles whichare to be 'incased in a paper wrapper, and the 'word tube will be usedtorefer to the wrapper, although it will be understood that these terms,may not be the broadest ones This strip may beheld in placevilfiy beingtransferred from the or suction device in order to gras and hold thesame until it has been eposited which might be emfployedfor thispurpose.

The picks are ed into the machine by means of a suitable feeding devicesuch as an endless belt a and having side guides a and preferably anadjustable strip a whereby the eeding device may be regulated as to sizeso as to accommodate picks of different lengths. adjusting screws a anda spring a, as

tained through the su port a? (Fig. 3) which is ordinarily provide toprevent the belt readlly be understood from Fig. 1, and may be susfromsagging. The belt travels around pul- :leys a} and a and "is drivenintermittently around theseulleys by means presently to be described, feding the picks gradually into the machine. W

Near the inner endof the belt and secured to the 'des a and a, is whatwill be re-' ferred to'as a seat I) for the icks, the latter Eelt oneby' one to said seat by an arm 0. e This arm is provided With some meanssuch as a pneumatic a pick by said arm in the seat I), and for thispurpose said arm may be made hollow and may e connected by a flexibletube 0' or the like to a suitable exhaust (not shown). Said arm 0 ismounted upon a frame (1 one endof which is pivoted to a bracket (1 andthe other end-of which rides u on a rotating cam member d This mem er isalso connected by means of a link d with said frame forth, therebyimparting to the arm o the motion necessary or liftmg a pick from thebelt and placing the pick in the seat 6. The

latter, as will be seen from Figs. 1, 3 and 5, is constructed so as toreceive the arm a, and the pick upon the end thereofand to hold thepick'as soon as it has been'released from the arm c.'

.The wra pers for the picks, which as before stated wile referred to'astubes, are of a tubular shape and are preferably formed as in acigarette making machine. In the accompanying drawings a ortion of acigarette tube making machine has been illustrated and its relation tothe present improvements shown. In said machine (Fig. 8,) a fiat stripof paper e is fed to a forming stick by means of which the paper stripplunger 72. which is operated at the properis worked into a tubularshape. The stick f in the present case is ada ted to fold over the edgesof the strip, w ich' folded over edges are interlocked with each otherand serve to hold the strip in a tubular form as thoroughly as thoughthese ed es were stuck together by a aste, all of which is old in theart and be readily understood, the manner of formin the fiat stri intotubular form having nothln todo wit the resent invention. The tu ularstrip thus ormed is fed from the end of the stick f across and upon atable 9 (Figs. 1, 4, 6 and 7 and brought substantially against the seatI) and in line -with the pick contained therein, being delivered througha guide g which brings the tube into correct position. In this positionsaid tube (indicated b the character f) is held preferably at eac enduntil the pick is shoved or ejected out of the seat I) and into the tubeby means of a time through suitable rod and link con- The means forholding the tube while the pick is being ejecte preferably comprise ahollow guide t on one end which the tube slightly enters (Fig. 6) and amember'y' (Figs. 1 and 3) which is adapted to be brought down upon thetube as soon as the same is in position and to act as a stop to limitthe travel of the drawing. These blades form arms of twobell cranklevers which are mounted upon a pivot in, the other arms as? beingnormall urged toward each other by a spring at whic tends to close theblades of the, scissors as in the act of cutting. While the tube isbeing fed'in the manner just described, the blades of. the scissors arekept in an open position by means of a rollerfar which is locatedbetween the arms :2 and is carried upon a lever x pivoted at m andcontrolled. by a cam as, so that as the roller :0 risesthearms and ,theblades :1: arejspread apart and are maintained in this osition until theroller moves down. At the propertime the cam 0: moves the roller downandthe spring at draws the arms a? and the blades :0 togetherthus-cutting off the tube.

, As soon as the pick has. been ejected from its seat into the tube, thesto 7' rises and a pusher (Figs. 1, 4 and 8) rops'upon the tube andshoves it'forward upon the table to the means for closin the ends ofthetub e.

These means prefera ly, comprise a pair of kinto the tube as the pick isejected omits seat. The sto 3' may bemounted. at j and caused-to .able'flattening means t.

wheel of each pair of toothed wheels preferably extends through thetable 9 and receives an intermittent rotation through an arm Z,

link Z and ratchet Z (Fi 4), while the upper toothed wheel of eac pairis preferab y mounted upon an arm Z" pivoted at Z and 7 upon which ascrew 1 bears order to control the closeness at which the two wheels areheld together. The pusher 7c advances the tubes f one at a time, to .andthrough the wheels [which serve to crimp the ends of the tubes, that isto form at the ends thereof a corrugated or indented fold, and thus tothoroughly close said ends. The pusher 7c is then ralsedthrough its suporting, arm is and allows the closed tube w1t its contained pick to dropdown the chute m into a suit.- able' collector, (not shown). Before thetubes are delivered to the crimipers by the pusher .k, [they arepreferably any suitable means, in the present case by the stop jand aplate k (Fig. 4) upon one end of the pusher k. In this way the ends ofthe tubes are always properly received by the crimping wheels Z. Y

. Referring particularly to Fig. 4, it will be attened by seen that theintermittent motion for the crimpers and the feeding belt is providedthrough a swinging arm n which receives its motion from a rotatin member0 to which it is connected by a cran arm The crimpers are operativelconnects to the arm at through the link while a link a connects said armnfwith an ad'ustable awl frame a through'which a'ratc et a) is'operatedto impart to the belt a the desired motion. The rotatin .memb'ef'o isoval shape and acts upon t e arm 7: carrying the usher 7c through aroller 1', while the arm 7c is pivoted upon the endgof the swinging armn. A vertical guide k may be provided to keep the pusherk and the arm isproperly centered.

From. Fig. 1 it will be seen that the cam member (1 receives its motionfrom a shaft d ,which receives power, through suitable gears from themam shaft .9. This main shaft, as will'also be seen, drives the cam hthrough the shaft 72. and drives the rotating member 0 and the cam 7'directly.

In order to deliver the pa er tube to the table 9 in a more or less ovashape or partially flattened condition, which may be desirable in somecases, the end of the sticky (Figs. 9 and 10) may be provide; with suit-These means, as illustrated com rise a V-shaped wire t, theapex of whichissecured around a lug u in said stick-in such a way that the free endsproject and aswill be obvious, press out- Wardly against the sides ofthe tube,-thus efiectmg ,a slight crease and causing1 the tube to assumemore or less of an oval s ape.

Figs. 11 and 12 illustrate another construction of the end of the stickfor effecting the same result. In these figures-the end of the stickconsists of two flat taperin strips '0, the ends of which are bentoutwar y.

The invention is not limited to the details of construction shown anddescribed, as many departures may be made from these details withoutavoiding the spirit of the invention. Neither, as has alread beenalluded to, is the inventionlimite to a machine for incasing toothpicks, as it will be readily understood that many other articles mav beincased in a similar manner.

claim as my invention: a 1. In an apparatus of the character de scribed,the combination of a seat for the picks, means to deliver picks into theseat one by one,,a. guide for the ends of Wrapping tubes at the deliveryend of the seat, means to feed the tubes one at a time up to and againstthe guide, and means to eject the pick from the seat through the guideand into the tube. 1

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a seatfor the picks, means to deliver picks into the seat one by one, atubular guide for the ends of wrapping tubes at the delivery end of theseat, means to feed'thetubes one at a time into the guide, and means toeject the picks from the seat through the guide and into the tubes. p

3. In an apparatus of the character described,-'the combination of aseat for the picks, means to deliver icks into the seat one by one,means to hol a tube to be filled comprising a guide .for the tube at oneend and a stop for'the pick at the other end, and

means to eject the pick from the seat into the tube.

scribed, the combination of a seat for the picks, means to deliver picksinto the seatone by one, a tubular guide at the delivery end of theseat, a stop piece iv'oted above the tube to be filled so as to be rouht down upon the tube to hold the same an act as a stop for the pick,and means to eject thepick from the seat into the tube.

5. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination; of aseat for the picks, a feeding device, means to transfer the picks one byone from the feeding device into the seat, means to hold a tube to befilled, a tubular guide at the delivery end of the seat to guide thetube into position and hold one end thereofwhile it is being filled, apivoted stop piece to hold the other end of the tube and act as a stopfor the pick, and mians to slide a pick from the seat into the tu e.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a seatfor the picks, a traveling belt, means to transfer the sl1de a pick fromthe seat intothe tube, and a regulating stri for the belt in order toadapt the machine or handling picks of different lengths.

'8. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of aseat for'the picks, means to lift the picks one by one into the-seat,means to hold the tube to be filled, and means to slide a pick from theseat into the tube. I

9. In an apparatus of the character de scribed, the combination of aseat for the picks, a traveling belt, pneumatic means to ift the picksone by one into the seat, means to hold a tube to be filled, and meansto slide a pick from the seat into the tube. I 10. In an apparatus ofthe character described, the combination of a seat for the scribed, thecombination of a seat for the picks, a feeding belt, and means totransfer picks one at a time from the belt to the seat,-

said means comprisin a frame, a rotating cam member upon w ich the framerides, and a link connecting said member and frame to reciprocate theframe. 1

12. In an ap aratus of the character described, the com ination of meansto insert a pick into a tube, and means to crimp the ed es at the endsof the tube together. in or er to close and seal the ends of the tube.

13. scribed, the combination of means to insert a pick into a tube, afine toothed wheel and a cot) crating member for each end of the tube togated foldand thus to close the same. 14. In an apparatus of thecharacter described, the combination of meansto insert a pick into atube, a pair of toothed wheels for each end of the tube and'between eachpair of which the ends of the tube are advanced respectively to closethe same.

15. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto hold a tube while it is being filled, means to form a corrugated foldat each end of the tube, and

In an apparatus of the character depicks, and means to deliver picksthereto one orm at. each end an indented or corru- &

means to deliver. the tube to the second named means.

16. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto hold a tube while it is being filled, a pair of toothed wheels foreach end of the tube, and means to deliver the tube to said wheels inorder to crimp the ends of said tube and close said ends.

17. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto hold a tube while it is being filled, a pair of toothed wheels foreach end of the tube to crimp said ends, means to advance said tube tothe crimping wheels, and means to rotate said crimping wheelsintermittently.

18. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto fill a tube, means to flatten the tube, and means to produce acorrugated fold at the ends of the tube.

19. In an apparatus of the-character described, the combination of meansto produce a corrugated fold at the end of a tube, and means to flattenthe tube before it is presented to the'folding means.

20. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto produce a corrugated fold at the ends of a tube, and

means to advance the tube to and through the folding means.

21. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of meansto fill a tube, means to flatten the tube, means to produce a corrugatedfold at the ends of the tube, and means to advance the tube to andthrough the crimping means.

- 22. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of afeeding device, a seat forholding picks one at a time, means to transferthe picks one at a time from the feeding device into the seat, means tohold a tube in line with a pick-in the seat, means to eject the pickfrom the seat into thetube, and means to crimp the endslof the tube.

23. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with astick upon which the tubes are formed, of a substantially V-shaped wiresecured to the stick at the apex of the wire so that the free ends ofthe wire are adapted to press outwardly against the tube and flatten thesame.

This specification signed and witnessed this 29th day of May, 1907.

ALEXANDER HERZ.

Signed in the presence of HOMER H. SNOW, LUoI s E. VARNEY.

